The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-15
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal aud Local.


Paymaster Sullivan, of the c., I. st. L. & O.,
will pay on the eastern division, tomorrow. for
January service, and on the western division on
Thursday.
Joint Agent Bowles of the INDIANAPOLIS east
bound pool. has gone to Chicago for instructions
from the late joint agent at Chicago as to how |
to run pools.
Mr.. r. HI. Soule has been appointed general |
manager Of the New York, Lake Erie & West |
railway and its leased lines. with headquar-
ters at No 81 Courtlandt street, New York
The c., H. & D. management has offered 800 |
reward for the discovery and conviction OF the |
person who fired into of their passenger |
trains. last week, just as it was leaving College
Corner.
C. c. Waite vice president of the c., I'll. & d. |
system, has contracted for fifteen more new To- |
comotives, ten for road engines and i've Tor
freight switching service All are to be dellv- |
cred within ninety days.
Passenger business the last few days has been |
heavier than for time past, and next |
month good travel is looked for especially |
westward, as there is to be good deal Of emf |
grafton from Eastern to Western States.
c. G. Gilmore, agent Of the G., H. & l., at
Connersville, is i'll that he has asked for
leave of absence, and J. D. James. who has just
returned from health seeking tour of several
months, will take his position as agent and tele-
graph operator.
The Decline management have not yet ar
| ranged for a wire into the Union Depot tele-
| graph Office, and the public is Inconvenience
thereby, no report Of their trains appears on
| the train board, as there should be where the
| roads are as important as the Bee-hne and l. q
| St. L.
| j. J. Walker formerly freight agent of the l.,
P. e. G. and of the Wabash at this point, has de-
cided to 60 out of railroad business entirely, and
| has gone to New York for permanent residence
Mr.. Walker was a quiet, yet q very correct, rail-
road man, and well thought of by the railroad
/ fraternity.
| It is stated that President ingalls,. of the G..
l., St. L. & c., has about decided to put up the
| new shops at this point the coming summer.
The annual floods at Cincinnati, which never
| fail to reach their shops at that point, have be-
| come expensive that it would be policy for the
! company to remove them where floods will give
| them trouble and injure no machinery.
VIM Fl. Vandergrift, who for some months
| past has been IN the service of the g., l.. St L.
| & c. as sort of general utility man, has re-
| ceiyed excellent appointment, and one that
he is fully competent to FILL that of assistant SUI
| perintendent Of the Milwaukee, Lake Shore &
| Western road, his headquarters to be Milwau-
| kee. He is to have charge of the main line be-
| tween Milwaukee and Ashland.
One of the Boston papers speaks of the Ohio
| Southern being one of Alfred Sullys pets, and
he is in favor of spending money literally on it,
| in the way of improving the property, which he
predicts in time will become e per cent paying
| dividend road The same paper speaks of Austin
| Corbin as being large holder of the bonds and
a large stakeholder, when the fact is that he
does not OWE dollars woyth of tho bonds and
not share OF the stock.
1t is quite probable that the genial and whole
hearted railroad men. such as VIM. r. McKeen
and John F. Miller, will visit Indianapolis more
frequently after the interstate-commerce bill is
in effect as they will not be annoyed st every
corner by some person begging for pass 1t is
stated that no person except those well-informed
as to these gentlemens movements realize what
} annoyance pass-begging is to them, they often
giving one to get rid of the party following them
from place to place.
The Louisville. Evansville & st. Louis rail-
road, since the reorganization has been put into
rst-class condition az far as it has been practi
, cable to do SO since the new management came
in. The old car-trust equipment has been given
| up, or the cars purchased. and new equipment
has been added, and large amounts of money
have been expended in the purchase of steel
rails. The earnings are beginning to respond.
the January statement showing gross earnings
of $64 318, against $50 542 same month last year,
, $40, 424 in 1885, and $4S, 1871 in 1884
, Said an old employee on the Wabash yesterday:
> II hope if the Wabash company is ever reorgan-
different plan than heretofore have been on
, the road for years, and have never seen the
} time that a man felt secure in his position, no
0 matter how we'll he filled it. There is now
: hardly a man employed on the road that was
q here ten years ago; am one of the exceptions.
r The road would have seen much less trouble had
f they encouraged their employees by giving them
; to understand that their positions were secure
J. to them, and that if worthy they would be pro-
d noted opportunity offered. But as the road
. has been run did not know in the morn
g ing whether he would be in the company's en-
| ploy twenty-four hours or not, and at no time
!, has that feeling been more prevalent than now.
J. Without doubt with the taking effect of the
5 lntsrstatecommerce bill higher freight rates
l. to be established in all directions, as through
rates will naturally advance to the range of loca
a ~ofac fhnr tooa rotnc d~nv~ % thnr
g of through rates This is quite evident In the re
ports of recent meetings held by general freigh
II agents. For instance. a meeting of genera
e freight agents held Saturday last a
d Philadelphia, even the Baltimore 81 Ohio genera
freight agent being present. At this meeting
|, the rate question fully discussed and it was
% unanimously agreed to stffen up rates al
10 classes of west-bound business While freigh
rates are to advance as the result OF this BILL i
d is equally probable that passenger rates will b,
r lower. possibly two cents per mile, with con
cessions to any party, doing away with mileage
tickets. theatrical rates, and all this excursion
q business. The tenor of the remarks of the gen
70 eral passenger agents is in this direction.
3 Comprehensive in Its Provisions.
II The interstate commerce bill will establish
"a government supervision over the rates of far
and freight and, indeed, over railroad book
keeping complete, the New York Evenin
! Post remarks, is now held over tn
rates of interest and the styles of book-keepin
of the national banks. By the law the commi.
- sion becomes responsible for the legitimate finar
a cial management of the railroads to the sam
1t extent that the Comptroller of the Currenc
and the bank examiners responsible for til
condition of the national banks. It gives th
- commissioners immensely more dscretionar
" power than is vested in the officials of any othe
- - department of the government The FIVE com